Category: Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization and the OpenShift Container Platform go far back. Both products are very well integrated and share security features like svirt and cgroups which are a core security component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Svirt allows you to run your virtual instances as well as containers in full tenant isolation mode whereas cgroups Read more about OpenShift on RHV Automated, Secure and Transparent[…]

In the last few month I got quite a few requests on deploying RHV as a single hyper-converged non extendable node with local storage (not gluster). This blog post is going to show you how you can install RHVM on baremetal and add the same host which hosts the baremetal engine to RHVM. As always, Read more about RHV single node with local storage domain[…]

To use the #virsh console command on a RHEL6 Virtual Server you need to configure the guests. If you do not configure them, this Escape character is ^] Is all you get. For RHEL6 clients you have to configure 2 files: /boot/grub/menu.lst add the modification in bold: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz serial –unit=0 –speed=115200 terminal –timeout=10 Read more about RHEL6 virsh console domain[…]

So rhel6 dropped xen and uses KVM now. Setup is quite easy. Just install the @kvm in kickstart or the “Virtualization” group with yum. The only tricky thing is, if you want to use virt-manager after a fresh install you need to also to install the package xorg-x11-auth 🙂